On 6/8/07, Curtis Wanner <katisu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ryan Leavengood wrote: >It sounds like a common Haiku AboutWindow class would be useful. It >could simply take the application title, Haiku copyright years, a list >of authors, and maybe "original copyright/written by/etc." freeform >text. Given that information it could format it nicely and >consistently across applications and provide the extra features Jonas >mentioned. First Issue - I suspect a lot of application developers probably wouldn't conform to this consistent idea. Although it might be a good idea to be consistent for applications that are being included with the base distribution.
Reading between the lines, I thought that what Ryan meant was to commit a "shared" AboutWindow class into the Haiku tree somewhere that all Haiku pre-loaded apps could use. Just a way to encourage conformity in all Haiku included apps. Extending the BeAPI to include an AboutWindow class probably wasn't what he meant, and therefore I don't think any 3rd party developers are going to be forced to use it. - Urias